Faucet



April 7, 1925- 1,533,077

G. S, BENNETT ET AL FAUCET Filed May 26, 1922 Wf- Zlwuentow 6 7755-565: 6;: AS36277?! A; Z J ,BWIWeZ' T Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

GEORGE s. BENNETT AN LQuIs LBENNETT, or MAssEnA, NEW YORK.

' FAUCET.

Application filed May 26, 1922. Serial No. 563,800.

T 0 all whom it may conceive:

Be it known that we, Gnonen S. BENNETT and LOUIS L. BENNETT, citizens of the United States, residing at Massena, in the county of Saint Lawrence and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Faucets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our said invention is the provision of a faucet that is durable and is not liable to drip because of its embodying a chamber designed to be occupied-by water and interposed between the receiving end and the outlet end of the faucet, the water thus being distributed throughout a large portion of the casing thereof.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the

invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure 1 is. a side elevation of faucet construction in accordance with our invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same.

Figure 8 is a horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Figure 2, looking downwardly.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

In common with the casings of ordinary faucets, the casing 1 of our novel faucet is provided with a receiving end portion 2, a pendent discharge spout 8, and an upstanding housing 4., the latter being eXteriorly threaded at 5 for the connection of a gland 6, designed to receive and retain appropriate packing as illustrated.

In the casing 1 is a horizontal diaphragm 7, integral with the casing and provided with a vertically disposed aperture 8 and a valve seat 9 surrounding the said aperture and arranged at the upper side of the diaphragm. Opposed to the valve seat 9 is a valve head 10 carried by a stem on which is a comparatively large threaded portion 11 that engages a corresponding interior thread in the housing 4:. Above the threaded portion 11 the valve stem is reduced as desig.

nated by 12 and is extended through the packing before referred to and the gland 6 and is equipped at its upper end with a handle 13.

The diaphragm 7 is arranged immediately below an aperture 14: in communication with the discharge spout. 3, and it will be noted by comparison of Figures 2. and 8 that the diaphragm f? is separated from the receiving end 20f the casing by a wall 15 so that water entering the receiving end 2 can only reach a point above the diaphragm 7 by passing through the said aperture 8. Surrounding the valve seat 9 and interposed between the diaphragm 7 and the top portion 16 of the faucet is anannular wall 17 between which and the wall 18 of the casing is formed an annular chamber 19; it being understood in this connection that the wall 18 is generally circular in plan. In the wall 17 are formed apertures 20 through which water finds its way from the aperture 8 in the diaphragm 7 into the annular chamber. From the said annular chamber the water through the discharge spout.

In virtue of the construction and arrangement described it will be appreciated that the Water is robbed by the storage of the same in the annular chamber of a considerable portion of its head, and consequently there is no liability of the water that is discharged from the spoutsplashing. It will passes to and also be appreciated that in virtue of the provision of the storage chamben relatively arranged as shown and described, the Wear will be distributed through a large portion of the faucet casing and hence the usefulness ofthe said casing will be materially prolonged. 'Another advantage following from the provision of the annular-chamber con.- nected and arranged as described resides in the fact that it lessens the liability of the faucet grabbing after the valve is closed.

We have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiment of our invention in order to impart a full, clear and exact understanding'of the said embodiment. We do not desire, however, to be understood as confining ourselves to the said. specificconstruction and relative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various changes and modifications may be made such as fall within the scope of our invention as defined in our appended claim.

Having described our invention, what We having a receiving end portion and a dis;

seat thereone'ndv a 311 isolating the upper v eide of'the said diaphragm from the receiv- 111g end. portion, and an apertured annular Wall arranged about the Valve seat and extending between the diaphragm :anditheztop of the casing and spaced Within from the *val-ve' head and the vah 'e seat :and spaced Wit heut froln the body portion of-Ithe easing, I rwhereh'y two concentric :a'nnnlar --'cihambers H are forlned in eommunication "w-ith fiheireceiv'ing wider-the disoitmr-ge-s veu-t, a valve illflatfl opposed .tothe Va1ve:sseat and'havlng a stem with a lower threaded portion engagon the housing receiving the said reduced portien ogfrthe stem and adapted to reta n' packing about the stem. 4

In testimony whereo'fy-we our signatunes.

'GEGR GE S. BENNETT; LOUJYS YL, BENNETT; 

